LIMA, Peru -- Nasser Al-Attiyah looks set to win the Dakar Rally again while Toby Price was the latest rider to take the motorbike lead after the eighth stage on Tuesday.
Apart from a slow puncture, Al-Attiyah stayed remarkably blunder-free again on the 360-kilometer, four-hour course from San Juan de Marcona north up the Peruvian coast to Pisco. He extended the lead he's held for all but one day from 29 minutes to 46.
Barring a major mistake he hasn't looked like making, the Qatari will win the world's toughest rally for a third time on Thursday after taking the title in 2011 and 2015.